On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Would RH 5.0 with X and Netscape run sucessfully on a > 486 66? I suppose the more RAM the better. Would 16 > be enough?
Nearly every distribution that comes out with a minor number of 0 has more bugs than later versions. If at all possible, you should run an x.2 version. RH 5.2 would be a much better choice than 5.0, but if that's what you want to use because that's what you have, then one of the first things you'll want to do is hit https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/ and grab any of the updates for packages you have installed, or think you'll want to install. You probably won't want to run Netscape 4.x on such a machine except when absolutely necessary. It'll use swap extensively, and just crawl. If you can upgrade to to at least 24 MB RAM, it should be at least tolerable. (navigator executable alone is 7.6 MB) Netscape 3.04 will run fine in 16MB RAM. It supports JS 1.1 I believe, so will work with some JS sites, but more often than not, you'll spend a lot of time clicking OK to get rid of the JS error popup. I just keep JS disabled and use 4.x on sites I really need. (executable is 4.5 MB) - Steve
